Category Archives for "Admin"

Security is a big concern people have with going paperless, and that’s why I wrote my Paperless Security Guide. I’m happy to release the Second Edition of the Guide today. In my opinion, making sure that your electronic documents are safe and secure is the most important part of going paperless. How you scan is […]

The short version of this blog post: the Fifth Edition of my Unofficial ScanSnap Setup Guide is now available. This is the Guide that I wanted when I was first going paperless with my ScanSnap. The long version: When I was going paperless, I was looking at different scanners and being a bit of a […]

I just noticed that tickets for SimpleREV, the event for “simple living enthusiasts” on October 2–3, 2015 have come down in price by $100 (!). Here’s what the coordinators say the goal of the event is: The goal? Intimate workshops, community-sourced meetups, inspiring REV Talks, and two days of deep connection. Thousands of hugs, smiles, […]

A while ago, Steve Dotto and I did a webinar called Going Paperless With Evernote (you can watch that here). It was so well received, people have been asking us ever since to do another one. Well, Steve has finally talked me into it. We’re getting the band back together and doing another webinar called […]

So I’m walking through my neighbourhood forest (this is Canada after all) home from dropping off my kids at school and I’m thinking to myself “I wonder which DocumentSnap posts from 2014 were the most popular?” Then I realized “I don’t need to wonder. I can just look this up.” Isn’t technology wonderful? I know […]

At the end of each year I do a survey of DocumentSnap readers just like you. Actually I do two surveys: one for the blog (which you are reading now) and one for readers of the DocumentSnap newsletter. In the surveys, I ask four main questions: What is the biggest problem that you have right […]

Many of the ideas that I write about here on DocumentSnap comes directly from you: the awesome reader. For the fifth (wow) year in a row, I’d like to stop and ask you what you would like to see on DocumentSnap. How can I help more? What would you like to see more of? What […]

Back in 2008, I bought my first Fujitsu ScanSnap which at the time was the S300M. There were bits and pieces online about how to most efficiently use the ScanSnap, but nothing that tied everything together. It wasn’t that I wanted to know what each screen, button, and option did – there is a manual […]

Back in March I posted about a new conference that had just been announced called SimpleREV. For some weird reason, in the six months since then I have neglected to mention that not only am I now attending, but I’m leading a workshop called Go Paperless: Simplify Your Life, Reduce Clutter, And Find Anything Instantly. […]

One of the best programs for working with PDFs on Windows is Nitro Pro, and they have a pretty great cloud service as well. I’m happy to announce that on Wednesday, September 17 I will be doing a free webinar with Nitro called Best Practices for Paperless Productivity. The webinar is not about Nitro specifically, […]

DocumentSnap was created by Brooks Duncan (that's me). I started it in 2008 as I was going through my paperless journey. Now I share what works (and what doesn't) so you know exactly how to go paperless yourself.